You have a point, but you must remember what had gone on before: Just junk; Dime novels and stuff they used to fill out the space between the covers of porn picture-books.
No, I am much, much more happy with the stuff from the 70s and 80s, volume-wise it was the most prolific yet consistently high-quality period.
Lots of good stuff in the last ten years, but all because the writers from the 70s and 80s were still writing.
Even now, it's true: Your prompting made me go ahead and order some stuff that looked promising; I'm going to try Harry Turtledove's "Future History" series about the Confederacy/USA, and I've ordered STILL MORE Discworld novels.
BTW, do you read Pratchett? If you are an SF/Fantasy fan, he will have you in stitches, his stuff is so funny. He takes on nearly ALL the stock devices of the SF/Fantasy genre and strings them together inside out.
The problem is, you HAVE to be an SF "insider" to appreciate it so I CAN'T SHARE MY MIRTH WITH SOMEONE LIKE MY WIFE, for instance, who has probably never read an SF novel since they made her read "Flowers for Algernon" in the Eleventh Grade.
Which reminds me: I've private-emailed you with some VERY confidential data, so take good care of it.
FReegards, I gotta hit the sack.